Prep Baseball Notebook: Airline shows bouce-back ablility

9:41 PM,
Mar. 11, 2013

Airline coach Toby Todd (left) has led the Vikings to seven straight victories.

Written by

Jason Pugh
jpugh@shreveporttimes.com

Four games into the 2013 high school baseball season, the Airline Vikings faced a familiar spot.

The Vikings finished a 1-3 showing against some of the state's top competition in the Dutchtown tournament, walking away from the greater Baton Rouge area with the same record from last season.

"You could see it in their eyes. It was a different 1-3," Vikings coach Toby Todd said. "We didn't just go down there and get our backsides beat in. We went down and competed, minus an error here or an error there. Even the Dutchtown game - a 5-0 game - was 0-0 in the fifth." ...